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• God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because of this, we can come to God empty and weak knowing that He takes us and with His power makes something out of nothing.

  Vicky Beeching

  Light, Knowing, Darkness

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• In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

  Noam Chomsky

  Blow, Order, Violence

  "Now it's a free for all". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 1999.

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• Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

  Max Anders

  Christian, Liberty, Defense

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• Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Attachment, Looks

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• Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”

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• If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Uplifting, Country, Strong

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• Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Mean, People

  P.J. O'Rourke (2014). “The C.E.O. of the Sofa”, p.83, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you just don't think you can, keep going! Getting through those weak moments is how you become stronger.

  Denise Austin

  Thinking, Stronger, Moments

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Nov 06, 2013

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• The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Giving, Realizing

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• The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Ignorant, Done

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• Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

  Dante Alighieri

  Desire, Flight, Reason

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• Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

  Immanuel Kant

  Strong, Weakness, Impatience

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• The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

  Jack Weatherford

  Strong, Warrior, Men

  Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.87, Broadway Books

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• The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

  Walter Winchell

  Strong, Gun, Survival

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• Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

  Muhammad Ali

  Believe, People, Church

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• People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, People, Vote

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• A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

  Aristotle

  Democracy, Oligarchy, Grows

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• We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.

  Harold MacMillan

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.46

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• My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  New York, Names, Dumb

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• Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well.

  Christopher Titus

  Country, Home, Nursing

  "Grandma Titus". "Titus" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.

  Ray Rice

  Wife, Want, Loving Me

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• Republicans can't run their normal playbook on me that they try to run on Democratic candidates. They can't say I flip-flop because I don't. They can't say I'm weak on defense because I'm not. They can't say I'm weak on values because I'm not. They can't say I'm a big taxer and a big spender.

  Joe Lieberman

  Running, Trying, Flip

  Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2004.

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• Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracies Have, Enemy, Democracy

  H. L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.50, Read Books Ltd

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